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Attachment-Informed Design: Digital Interventions That Build Self-Worth, Relationships, and Community in Support of Mental Health
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“Second, it acknowledges that relationships with technologies exist on a spectrum from supportive to harmful.”
From Understanding Teen Overreliance on AI Companion Chatbots Through Self-Reported Reddit Narratives (2026) · cites this paper as [87]
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“Fourth, it engages with the target community without explicitly framing the experience as a mental health intervention.”
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“Attachment-informed design adds a perspective rooted in four principles [87].”
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“First, it prioritizes core human needs that motivate behavior, such as safety, connection, and competence.”
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“Third, it recognizes that individuals bring internal models of themselves and others into digital interactions, shaping how they interpret responsiveness and closeness.”
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“In the context of chatbots, this means recognizing that not all teens grow up in families where parental love is reliable, and some may lack supportive connections with peers or access to appropriate mental health resources.”
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“It is a common assumption in research that most users grow up in stable households with parents who reliably meet their physical, psychological, and social needs, overlooking those whose experiences fall outside this norm [87].”
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“Attachment-informed design emphasizes that people's lives span a spectrum of relationships-some supportive and others harmful [87].”
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“Attachment theory highlights two internal working models that shape mental health: how people see themselves and how they see others [87].”
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- Marcu, G., & Huh-Yoo, J.
- Affiliations
- School of Information, University of Michigan, United States
- College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, United States
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
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- ACM
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- 2023-07-10
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- 2453-2468
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- National Science Foundation (1816319 and 2144880)
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